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Bodily Pleasure and the Self: Experimental, Pharmacological and Clinical Studies on Affective Touch
Crucianelli, Laura (2016-09-27)In the last decade, neuroscience and psychology alike have paid increasing attention to the study of affective touch, which refers to the emotional and motivational facets of tactile sensation. Some aspects of affective ... -
Bodily pleasure matters : velocity of touch modulates body ownership during the rubber hand illusion
Crucianelli, Laura; Metcalf, Nicola K.; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini Katerina; Jenkinson, Paul M. (2013)The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of our self-consciousness. Influential experimental paradigms, such as the rubber hand illusion (RHI), in which a seen rubber hand is experienced as part of one's ... -
Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective touch
Kirsch, Louise P; Besharati, Sahba; Papadaki, Christina; Crucianelli, Laura; Bertagnoli, Sara; Ward, Nick; Moro, Valentina; Jenkinson, Paul M; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (2020-01-24)Specific, peripheral C-tactile afferents contribute to the perception of tactile pleasure, but the brain areas involved in their processing remain debated. We report the first human lesion study on the perception of C-tactile ... -
The effect of intranasal oxytocin on the perception of affective touch and multisensory integration in anorexia nervosa : protocol for a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study
Crucianelli, Laura; Serpell, Lucy; Paloyelis, Yannis; Ricciardi, Lucia; Robinson, Paul; Jenkinson, Paul; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (2019-03-15)INTRODUCTION: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder characterised by restriction of energy intake, fears of gaining weight and related body image disturbances. The oxytocinergic system has been proposed as a ... -
Embodied Precision : Intranasal Oxytocin Modulates Multisensory Integration
Crucianelli, Laura; Paloyelis, Yannis; Ricciardi, Lucia; Jenkinson, Paul M; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (2019-04-01)Multisensory integration processes are fundamental to our sense of self as embodied beings. Bodily illusions, such as the rubber hand illusion (RHI) and the size-weight illusion (SWI), allow us to investigate how the brain ... -
Interoceptive Ingredients of Body Ownership: Affective Touch and Cardiac Awareness in the Rubber Hand Illusion
Crucianelli, Laura; Krahé, Charlotte; Jenkinson, Paul; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (2018-07-01)The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of bodily self-consciousness. Using multisensory integration paradigms, recent studies have shown that both exteroceptive and interoceptive information contribute ... -
The Mindedness of Maternal Touch: : An Investigation of Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Mother-Infant Touch Interactions
Crucianelli, Laura; Wheatley, Lisa; Filippetti, Maria Laura; Kirk, Elizabeth; Jenkinson, Paul; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (2019-02)Increasing evidence shows that maternal touch may promote emotion regulation in infants, however less is known about how parental higher-order social cognition abilities are translated into tactile, affect-regulatory ... -
The perception of affective touch in anorexia nervosa
Crucianelli, Laura; Cardi, Valentina; Treasure, Janet; Jenkinson, Paul M; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (2016-05-30)Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a disorder characterized by restricted eating, fears of gaining weight, and body image distortions. The etiology remains unknown; however impairments in social cognition and reward circuits contribute ... -
Reading the mind in the touch: Neurophysiological specificity in the communication of emotions by touch
Kirsch, Louise; Krahé, Charlotte; Blom, Nadia; Crucianelli, Laura; Moro, Valentina; Jenkinson, Paul; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (2018-07-31)Touch is central to interpersonal interactions. Touch conveys specific emotions about the touch provider, but it is not clear whether this is a purely socially learned function or whether it has neurophysiological specificity. ... -
The touched self : Affective touch and body awareness in health and disease
Gentsch, Antje; Crucianelli, Laura; Jenkinson, Paul; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (Springer Nature, 2016)This chapter focuses on how interpersonal, affective touch shapes our sense of self as embodied beings. In the first section, we highlight the centrality of bodily representations for our psychological sense of self, with ... -
Welcoming back my arm: Affective touch increases body ownership following right hemisphere stroke
Jenkinson, Paul; Papadaki, Cristina; Besharati, Sahba; Moro, Valentina; Gobbetto, Valeria; Crucianelli, Laura; Kirsch, Louise P; Avesani, Renato; Ward, Nick; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (2020-03-28)Right-hemisphere stroke can impair the ability to recognize one's contralesional body parts as belonging to one's self. The study of this so-called 'disturbed sense of limb ownership' can provide unique insights into the ...